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According to Wheatley's ' London Past and Present,' Bedford Row. Holborn, not very far away, was built on land belonging to this charity ; while we are also reminded that Harpur Street, Red Lion Square, is named after Sir William Harpur, who was Lord Mayor in 1561, and died in 1573.

G. YARROW BALDOCK.

REFERENCES IN ' MARITJS THE EPI- CUREAN.' Can any of your readers tell me what is the original source of the follow- ing quotations and statements in Pater's ' Marius the Epicurean ' ?

1. " Dying Antoninus ordered his golden image of Fortune to be carried into the chamber of his successor."

2. " Numen inest."

3. " The Rock on the Heath fashioned by the weather as if by some dim human art."

4. " Old-fashioned ; partly puritanic awe, the power of which \Y or d^oorth noted and valued so highly in a northern peasantry."

5. " An upright stone with mouldering gar- lands marked the spot."

6. The feeding, &c., of Genii, " violets, a cake dipped in wine, or a morsel of honeycomb . ., . deprived of these services, would be heard wandering through the house, crying sorrow- fully in the stillness of the night."

ARTHUR W. CREE.

REFERENCES WANTED.

1. "Strange to spell or rede."

2. " Everything he did became him best."

3. Who was the fifteenth-century Italian who said that " in subjection to women he learnt the governance of men " ?

4. " Own large father-like heart " used of Warwick the Kingmaker.

5. "Bide thy time."

6. Who was the old historian who said that the '' wealth of London looked pale," at the time of Margaret of Anjou's advance on London after the battle of Wakefield ?

F. C. R.

REFERENCE WANTED. Where in Mas- singer's work do the following lines occur ?

Nor custom, nor example, nor vast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

G. U.

HOGARTH'S ' RAKE'S PROGRESS.' Are the words of the ' Black Joke ' in plate 3 of Hogarth's ' Rake's Progress ' known to any of your correspondents ?

H. C. HENDERSON.

PICTURE OF CLEOPATRA. Can any of your readers kindly inform me where the picture of Cleopatra, of which a reproduc- tion was published in The London Magazine

of May, 1826, as an illustration to an article of the Italian writer Ugo Foscolo, is kept now ? The picture an ancient encaustic painting was taken to England to be sold there in 1826, but was known to be in Florence between 1779 and 1822.

EUGENIA LEVI. Florence.

GREAT FIRE IN WAPPING, 1682. Can any of your readers refer me to a public record of the Great Fire in Wapping in November, 1682 ?

By the labours of the Historical Manu- scripts Commission we see that, writing to Sir R. Verney under date 16 Nov., 1682, John Verney says, " There was a great fire at Wapping this night " ; and on 23 Nov. he adds :

" 'Tis believed the fire has consumed above 1,000 houses at W T apping, a mile in compass being burnt down. Sir W. Warren is the greatest sufferer, both for houses and stores of wood, as masts, deals, pitch, tar, &c."

And under date of 11 Dec., 1682, a newsletter writer to country gentlemen says :

" His Majesty hath been pleased to give Two Thousand Pounds ; a Person of Quality, Five Hundred Pounds ; and Madame Gwin One Hundred Pounds toward the relief of the late dreadful Fire which happened at Wapping."

Sir W. Warren was the very useful friend of Samuel Pepys, and, as he was " the greatest sufferer," the probable centre of the great devastation of 1682 was what is now the Ratcliff works of the Commercial Gas Company. CHARLES McNAUGHT.

48, Whitechapel Road, E.

COMPTON ABDALE CHURCH. Can any one inform me whether there is any other church in England where heraldic animals are used as pinnacles ? The corner pinnacles of the tower at Abdale, Glos., have what appear to be bears, and I thought they might be associated with the Warwick family, but I am told they are hounds. I suppose they are the crest of some noble- man who restored the church. If so, what family ? SYDNEY HERBERT.

Carlton Lodge, Cheltenham.

DICK TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK. The account of the discovery of ' Dick Turpin's Pistol' (ante, p. 107) gives me the oppor- tunity of asking how the " Ride to York came to be ascribed to that gentleman. According to some papers, the exploits of which he is made the hero are entirely legendary, and it is commonly supposed that Harrison Ainsworth, in his novel